The Chalet School
Sep. 20th, 2011 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magog_83This morning, a 30 minute documentary (sort of) on The Chalet School books by Elinor M. Brent Dyer aired on Radio 4! I have just listened to it and it was WONDERFUL. They had all these quiz questions in between and I actually got quite a few of them right. GO ME.
Because of those books I grew up yearning to go to the Austrian Tyrol and greet everyone I met by saying "Gruss Gott" - as every good chalet girl did (I later did this when I was 12) and eat 'mittagessen' and use the splasheries and have crazy adventures in the mountains. In reality, I would have hated boarding school, but not if it was the Chalet School <3
There were 58 books written and I think I've read all of them, well all of them I could get from my local libraries and charity shops.
Anyway, here it is on Listen Again if anyone is interested. It's a very funny and affectionate documentary presented by the crime novelist Val McDermid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014pzzs
Because of those books I grew up yearning to go to the Austrian Tyrol and greet everyone I met by saying "Gruss Gott" - as every good chalet girl did (I later did this when I was 12) and eat 'mittagessen' and use the splasheries and have crazy adventures in the mountains. In reality, I would have hated boarding school, but not if it was the Chalet School <3
There were 58 books written and I think I've read all of them, well all of them I could get from my local libraries and charity shops.
Anyway, here it is on Listen Again if anyone is interested. It's a very funny and affectionate documentary presented by the crime novelist Val McDermid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014pzzs
